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May
2007 Petris Symposium: Implementing Health Care Reforms in California
Location: Berkeley, California, USA
Date: 4 May 2007
Venue: Clark Kerr Campus, University of California, Berkeley
Time: 1pm - 5pm with Reception to follow
The Nicholas C. Petris Center at the University of California, Berkeley’s School of Public Health is looking forward to Friday, May 4 for this year’s Spring Symposium on Implementing Health Reforms in California. For those of you who attended the 2006 Petris Symposium, you will know that this will be an afternoon of informative discussions on key health care issues facing Californians: proposed health care coverage reforms, ongoing changes in our mental health care system brought on by Proposition 63, and the wide-spread use of Ritalin and other stimulant drugs used to treat ADHD in children.
This year’s Symposium will be held in Berkeley at the Clark Kerr Campus, which is a few blocks southeast of the main campus. The welcoming comments will begin at 1:00 p.m., followed by the afternoon’s keynote addresses and panel discussions, and then a reception from 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
PLEASE log onto our website to view the current agenda and to register for the event. This is a ticketed event. Tickets are no charge, but registration is required. If you experience problems with the registration site, please call Amy Nuttbrock at 510-643-4100.
Amy M. Nuttbrock
Program Coordinator
Nicholas C. Petris Center on Health Markets and Consumer Welfare
2150 Shattuck Avenue, Suite 525
Berkeley, California 94704
510-643-4100
May
I. ERGIHCS International Conference Innovation and Change in Health Care Systems
Location: Budapest, Hungary
Dates: 10 -12 May 2007
Confirmation date: 30 March 2007
Venue: Andrássy University
Download Confirmation Form (MS Word) and send to send to Stefan Okruch, stefan.okruch@andrassyuni.hu by March 30.
The European Research Group on Innovation and Change in Health Care Systems (ERGIHCS) is an initiative of researchers at European universities and research institutes. Their main interest is to explain the factors and their interaction that affect the evolution of health care systems. By applying advanced methods in institutional and evolutionary economics on current issues their ultimate objective is to design sustainable policies and give advice to decision-makers in the relevant policy fields.
All over the world health care systems face a tremendous pressure for reforms, mainly caused by tightening financial constraints, but also by demographic changes. Given the importance of medical progress in improving the human condition and the increasing share of health care activities in GDP, a focus on innovation and change in health care is an essential extension of health economics research. The ERGIHCS starts out from the diagnosis that existing approaches in health economics need to be expanded and enriched with insights and methods of evolutionary and institutional economics. The standard approaches analyze how innovations in the medical sector influence prices, quantities and qualities of medical services while treating them as exogenously given. In contrast to that, the ERGIHCS aims to analyze in detail how innovations emerge and diffuse by the interaction of the actors involved in health care systems. By identifying the mechanisms that shape how new institutions, products and organizational forms are generated in health care systems, statements about their impact on health care expenditures and outcomes can be derived. By analyzing the incentives of the main actors, viable prescriptions to better direct the path of innovations in the medical sector can be obtained for public policymakers.
Accordingly, the ERGIHCS focuses primarily on (1) institutional innovation in health care systems and industry evolution, on (2) policy change and competition among health care systems, and on (3) the demand for health care services and its long-run evolution. The I. ERGIHCS Conference is meant to bring together researchers of the relevant fields, to survey different approaches and to set the agenda for further research.
Paper submission: Invitation to the conference is based on an extended abstract of around 2000 words. The abstract must include information on the relevant theories, methodology, data, and (expected) results. MORE INFORMATION on submission procedures is soon available at http://www.ergo-inch-health.de/
Organizing committee
- Martina Eckardt; Witten/Herdecke University (Germany)
- Carsten Herrmann-Pillath, Witten/Herdecke University (Germany)
- Stefan Okruch, Andrássy University (Budapest, Hungary)
Contact person:
Martina Eckardt martina.eckardt@uni-wh.de
Faculty of Management and Economics
Witten/Herdecke University
Alfred-Herrhausen-Strasse 50
58448 Witten
Germany
Address of hosting university
Andrássy University
Pollack Mihály tér 3
H-1088 Budapest
May
CHESG 2007: Sixth Annual Canadian Health Economics Study Group
Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Dates: 17-18 May 2007
The Sixth Annual Canadian Health Economics Study Group will take place May 17-18, 2007 at the University of Ottawa. Sherry Glied will be the keynote speaker for this year’s study group on “The Economics of Children’s Health”. The preliminary program, information on the conference, and details about accommodation can be found online
Registration deadline is Friday, May 4th
May 17, 2007: Health Economics
May
International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Resesarch (ISPOR): 12th International Meeting
Location: Arlington VA, USA
Date: May 19-23, 2007
For details please visit: http://www.ispor.org/meetings/future/index.htm
May
13th Conference of the Danish Forum of Health Economics
Location: Århus, Denmark Date: 24 May 2007
Venue: Students’ House, University of Aarhus
Time: 10:00 – 17:00
Deadline for registration: 30 April 2007.
Followed by dinner at Restaurant Martino, Marselisborg Lystbådhavn (Marselisborg Marina)
The 13th Conference is a arranged by HTA and Health Services Research, Institute of Public Health, School of Economics and Management and Aarhus School of Business, University of Aarhus.
The Danish Forum of Health Economics is a network aiming at creating a professional forum of health economics in Denmark. The intention is to create contact between Danish research environments and individuals engaged in health economics.
The key speakers are:
- Mark G. Duggan, PhD Economics, Associate Professor, University of Maryland, Department of Economics: Estimating the Impact of Medical Innovation: A Case Study of HIV Antiretroviral Treatment
- Lars Dahl Pedersen, PhD, MA (Public Administration and Political Science), Chief of Planning Department of Central Denmark Region: Danish Health at Multiple Crossroads – Where are We Heading?
Registration via http://www.mtv-aarhus.dk/. As soon as we have received your registration, including payment, we will send you an access code to the final papers on the website. Deadline for registration is April 30, 2007.
For further information, please contact Associate Professor Lars Ehlers – Phone: +45 8728 4752 or e-mail: lars.ehlers@stab.rm.dk.
May 24, 2007: Health Economics
5th European Conference on Tropical Medicine and International Health - Partnership and Innovation in Global Health: Federation of the Societies of Tropical Medicine and International Health
Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Dates: 24-28 May 2007
This congress is the 5th congress which is organized under the auspices of the Federation of the Societies of Tropical Medicine and International Health. It will be organized in the Netherlands to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Dutch Society for Tropical Medicine and International Health (NVTG).
In the Netherlands, especially in Amsterdam, there is a longstanding tradition in tropical medicine and international health.
The theme chosen is Partnership and Innovation in Global Health, expressing the need for collaboration to develop the quality of global health and achieve some of the Millennium Development Goals. Global collaboration means collaboration between North and South, South and South, North and North, and East and West. Furthermore, innovation is important to be able to attempt to control the major problems of international health.
The upcoming congress in Amsterdam is welcoming every health professional to create a platform where all issues concerning global health may be addressed, such as issues of public health, clinical tropical medicine, health economics, poverty, basic science, diagnostics and therapeutics.
http://www.trop-amsterdam2007.com/
Overview of the Topics: The conference programm will be composed of parallel and plenary sessions, satelite symposia and side meetings, “Where are we?” sessions, interactive clinical case sessions and poster presentations.
Conference topics include e.g.
- malaria, TB and AIDS vaccine development
- North-South collaboration
- governance, equity and health
- health sector reforms and policy
- travel health
- public-private partnerships
- tuberculosis pharmacology
- antibiotic resistance
- military medicine
- tropical neurology
- mental health
- geograpical dermatology
- venomous and poisonous animals
- fungal disease
- leptospirosis
- intestinal helminths
- tuberculosis control and epidemiology
- MDR-TB
- antiretroviral resistance
- HIV prevention
- malaria pathology, immunology, biology and treatment
- vector control
- infectious diseases modelling
- immigrant health
- safe motherhood
Contact Details: The 5th European Conference on Tropical Medicine and International Health will be held from May 24-28 2007 at the Amsterdam RAI Exhibition and Congress Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
For more information check the conference website www.trop-amsterdam2007.com or contact the congress organisation at:
K.I.T. Swiss S.A., Association & Conference Management Group, Genève. Email: info@trop-amsterdam2007.com
- Conference website: http://www.trop-amsterdam2007.com/
- Netherlands Society of Tropical Medicine and International Health: http://www.nvtg.org/
- Federation of European Societies for Tropical Medicine and International Health: http://www.festmih.net/
Uniting Stream “Young Tropical Scientist 2007” Award.
Uniting Streams is a workgroup for fieldresearch in International Health and operates under the unbrella of the Netherlands Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. The workgroup has over 150 members from The Netherlands and Belgium working in various disciplines within the field of International Health. Our aim is to stimulate multidisciplinary discussion on various topics related to (fieldwork in) International Health.
On behalf of Uniting Streams, we invite all talented young scientists to apply for the Young Tropical Scientist of the Year Award. The organisation will select five speakers to present their work in a separate parallel session. A professional committee will award one of these scientists with a prize and 500 euros.
All scientists who have not yet defended their PhD thesis can apply for this prize. They can submit recent research in the field of tropical medicine which should be related to field work in developing countries.
To apply for this prize, we require:
- an abstract of the work you want to present (250 words, format provided),
- an outline of your research (500 words, format provided),
- a letter of recommendation for a senior scientist.